Guest Lectures

Prof. Richard A. Epstein

„Neither Too Much Nor Too Little: Regulation as a Recipe for Pareto Improvements”September 26, 2013, University of Warsaw

Prof. Richard A. Epstein – inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Expert in economic analysis of law, in particular property law, tort law, contract law, constitutional law, and healthcare.

Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz

„Institutional Change After Socialism and the Rule of Law”September27, 2013, University of Warsaw

Prof. Dr. hab. Leszek Balcerowicz – a world-known Polish economist, professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. Architect of Poland’s economic reforms initiated in 1989, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, in the period 2001-2007 Governor of the National Bank of Poland. Founder and Chairman of the Civil Development Forum (FOR) Foundation.

Prof. Thomas Ulen

„Law and Economics: An Introduction with Applications to Contract Law and Governmental Regulation”April 17, 2012, Cracow University of Economics (co-organizer: Malopolska School of Public Administration)

„Happiness Economics” April 19, 2012, Warsaw School of Economics (co-organizer: Students’ Association of Law and Economics at WSE)

„The Lessons of 30 Years of Law & Economics – and the Future” April 20, 2012, University of Warsaw

Prof. Thomas Ulen – Swanlund Chair Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, former Director of the Illinois Program in Law and Economics, an outstanding Law & Economics scholar, author (with R. Cooter) of one of the best Law & Economics textbooks, co-founder of the American Association of Law & Economics.see more

Prof. Eli Salzberger

Prof. Eli Salzberger – President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2009-2011), former Dean of the Law School at the University of Haifa, specializing in economic analysis of intellectual property law, theory and philosophy of law, legal ethics, and Israeli Supreme Court. member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, a member of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute

Prof. Stefan Voigt

„New Trends in Law & Economics: The Economic Effects of Constitutional Law”May 6, 2010, University of Warsaw

Prof. Stefan Voigt – Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University, fellow with CESifo (Munich), affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, expert in economic analysis of constitutional law, member of the board of editors of Review of Law & Economics, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, cooperated with the World Bank, European Commission, OECD, and European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).

Prof. Roger A. Bowles

„An Economic Approach to Crime and Risk Factors of Recidivism” March 6, 2008, University of Warsaw

Prof. Roger A. Bowles – President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2007-2008), Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Economics & Psychology and Professor of Economics at the University of York, author of numerous publications on economic analysis of crime, member of the Board of Partnership for Safer York (2004-2007), in 2007-2008 involved in a EC-financed research grant concerned with estimating the costs of crime.

Prof. Hans-Bernd Schaefer

Prof. Hans-Bernd Schaefer – President of the European Association of Law and Economics (until 2007), Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University and the European Master Programme in Law and Economics (EMLE).